unit15reading

Answer the following questions • Whom is the video clip about? It’s about Gagarin (Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin). He is a Russian cosmonaut (nhà du hành vũ trụ). He is the first human to fly into space. • When did he fly into space? On 12 th April, 1961. • What missing word is there in the below sentence? Yuri Gagarin opened the era of ______ conquest (sự chinh phục) of humanity. space Before you read Vocabulary • Conquest ['k ηkwest]ɔ (n): Sự chinh phục • Lift off (v) ['lift :f] bay lênɔ • Orbit (n) [' :bit]ɔ : quỹ đạo • Cosmonaut (n) ['k zmən :t]ɔ ɔ = astronaut (n) ['æstrən :t]ɔ : nhà du hành vũ trụ • Weightlessness (n) ['weitlisnis]: tình trạng không trọng lượng = zero gravity (n.ph) • Precisely (adv) [pri'saisli] chính xác • React (v) [ri:'ækt]: phản ứng • Psychological (adj) [,saikə'l d ikəl]: thuộc về ɔ ʤ tâm lí • Tension (n) ['ten n ] : sự căng thẳngʃ • Feat (n) [fi:t]: kỳ công, thành quả • Failure (n) ['feiljə] : sự trục trặc/thất bại • Venture (n) ['vent∫ə]: sự mạo hiểm How many new words can you remember? - Look at the pictures, then guess the words - How can you say “quỹ đạo” and “bay lên” in English? orbit, lift off - Look at the transcriptions, then read the words and their Vietnamese meaning [ri:'ækt] [pri'saisli] react(v): phản ứng precisely(adv): chính xác - Listen to two words then read them and their Vietnamese meaning psychological(adj) thuộc tâm lí conquest(n) sự chinh phục - Fill in the blanks: 1/ He’s in the state of psychological __________ 2/ The synonym of risk is _____________ - Arrange the letters into the words give their Vietnamese meaning tafe lurefia tension venture feat failure Cosmonaut weightlessness Reading the names • Moscow • Yuri Gagarin • Vostok 1 • U.S (United States) • John F. Kennedy (John Fitzgerald Kennedy) • Soviet Union • Gzhatsk While you read 1. At 9.07 a.m. Moscow time on 12 th April, 1961, Yuri Gagarin lifted off into space aboard the Vostok 1. Approximately 12 minutes later, the first human being was in orbit around the Earth at a speed of more than 17,000 miles per hour. His flight lasted 108 minutes. 2. The 27-year –old Soviet cosmonaut became the first person to eat and drink in weightlessness. From his window in space, Gagarin was able to view the earth in a way that no human beings had done before. The first words spoken from space were: “I see the Earth. It’s so beautiful!” 3. Before Gagarin’s historic flight, there were still enormous uncertainties. No one knew precisely what would happen to a human being in space. How would the body react to the extreme changes in temperature? How would the mind deal with the psychological tension? If there was a technical failure, Gagarin might never get back to the Earth.